Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gestures as he addresses a news conference in Harare, Zimbabwe, Sept. 11, 2013.

The octogenarian (he’ll actually turn 90 next year) is still kicking, fresh from a thumping victory in national elections last month that were widely derided as fraudulent. But before becoming a wizened autocrat, Mugabe was a champion anti-imperialist. In 2004, he was able to muster some of the old brio in the wake of the U.S.-led Iraq War. Mugabe called out the hubris of the war’s two main proponents—U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. “We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen,” intoned Mugabe, “namely that there is but one political God, George W. Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet.”